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I remember hearing some story about the pizza originally being just an edible vehicle for food into the mouth because there wasn't any notion of eating from a p
by arketyp 3y ago
I remember hearing some story about the pizza originally being just an edible vehicle for food into the mouth because there wasn't any notion of eating from a personal plate with fork and knife. Bread is served to be used as a scoop even in fine dining today. The sandwich is the default!
- reillyse 3y agoYes. It is literally all nonsense. As soon as people invented bread they started eating it with things. All of those things were sandwiches.
- wirrbel 3y agoSo much this! Smørrebrød, Butterbrot/Wurstbrod Why would you even bake Bread WITHOUT topping? Just doesn't make much sense, there is only so much gravy you could dunk plain bread in. Similarly the Pizza-style dishes were continuously re-discovered (if you are baking loafs of bread in a wood-fired oven you need to gauge whether the oven has the right temperature, instead of charcoaling your large loafs of bread, you just use a small, flat piece of dough for that that quickly bakes. Since you don't throw away food, as a baker you'll eat it. And from there, its just a little step to add toppings on top. Cheese in the case of Pizza, Onions / Bacon in the case of Flammkuchen in Alsace, in Swabia similar thing is called dennede, Pide in Turkey, etc.
- crooked-v 3y agoFor a long time, the standard "plate" in Europe, for anyone fancy enough to need one, was just a large slab of very stale bread left over from a previous meal [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher_(tableware) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher_(tableware)